'I found Trump very beguiling': Legendary magazine editor Tina Brown opens up on how The Donald made her laugh, Harvey Weinstein's love of 21-year-olds in high-heels and THAT cover shot of a naked and pregnant Demi Moore

Brown said she found Donald Trump charming when she first began editing Vanity Fair in the 1980s

'I found him very beguiling actually. He had a kind of freshness and bravado that made me laugh,' she said, adding that all changed as his appetite for fame grew

He 'got less and less entertaining' she said, recalling one incident when he'd gone 'ballistic' because a writer noted he had Hitler's speeches in his office

She claims that Trump later took revenge at a party by dumping wine down the back of the writer's dress

Brown also worked with business partner Harvey Weinstein but said she never had any reason to suspect her business partner

'I think Harvey's taste was girls of 21 who were in high-heeled shoes from Hollywood. But you know, it's a very shocking and disturbing story,' she said

The 63-year-old also reminisced about some of the highlights of her decades in journalism including her famous cover of a naked, pregnant Demi Moore

Legendary magazine editor Tina Brown has revealed how she found Donald Trump 'beguiling' and never suspected her disgraced business partner Harvey Weinstein during their interactions as she opened up about her decades in journalism.

Brown, who edited both Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, shared her insight into the president, long before his political ambitions, in an interview with CBS' Sunday Morning.

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The British born editor, 63, described the real estate mogul as someone who could switch on the charm when he needed to.

'Donald Trump always came on the line with a gag, and in a funny way it did win him the hearts of the press, I think,' Brown told Tony Dokoupil. 'I found him very beguiling actually. He had a kind of freshness and bravado that made me laugh.'

Legendary magazine editor Tina Brown (pictured) has revealed how she found Donald Trump 'beguiling' as she opened up about her decades in journalismBrown found Donald Trump, with first wife Ivana Trump in 1980, charming at first but said as his appetite for fame grew, he 'got less and less entertaining'

But she said as his appetite for fame grew, he 'got less and less entertaining.'

'The desire for publicity made him so impossible to deal with,' Brown added, noting he went from beguiling to ballistic when he thought someone had crossed him.

'One of our best writers [at Vanity Fair] did a piece on him, and she noted in the piece that he had Hitler's speeches in his office. And he went absolutely ballistic.'

She claims that Trump later took revenge at a party by dumping wine down the back of the writer's dress.

When she wasn't rubbing shoulders with New York's rich and powerful for Vanity Fair or The New Yorker, Brown was hard at work on another magazine, Talk - founded by Brown, Ron Galotti and Harvey Weinstein's Miramax in 1999.

Weinstein has since been hit with dozens of accusations of sexual abuse and harrasment by 50 women, including stars like Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Ashley Judd.

Brown also worked with business partner Harvey Weinstein (pictured with her in an undated photo) who has since been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 50 womenBrown said she never had any reason to suspect her business partner, adding that 'Harvey's taste was girls of 21 who were in high-heeled shoes from Hollywood' (Brown pictured with her husband journalist Harold Evans, center, and Weinstein, left)

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But Brown said she never had any reason to suspect her business partner.

'It wasn't my business to pry into what he did after hours. I had no idea what was going on,' she said, adding that Weinstein never sexual harassed her personally.

'I think Harvey's taste was girls of 21 who were in high-heeled shoes from Hollywood. But you know, it's a very shocking and disturbing story.'

Brown became the editor of British society magazine Tatler when she was just 26 years old but it was when she was invited to take over the role of editor-in-chief of the newly relaunched Vanity Fair in 1984 that catapulted Brown into a household name in magazine journalism.

She moved to from the UK to New York, arriving in the middle of the 1980s, a time for excess which she said 'could not have been a juicier, more vivid world to be writing about.'

By the time she left the Vanity Fair in 1992, she'd increased circulation five fold and created some iconic covers, including the famous 1991 shot of a naked, pregnant Demi Moore (pictured is photographer Annie Leibovitz in front of her portrait of pregnant actress Demi Moore)Brown became the editor of British society magazine Tatler when she was just 26 years old but it was when she was invited to take over the role of editor-in-chief of the newly relaunched Vanity Fair in 1984 that catapulted Brown into a household name in magazine journalism

By the time she left the Vanity Fair in 1992, she'd increased circulation five fold and created some iconic covers, including the famous 1991 shot of a naked, pregnant Demi Moore.

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'I had just come out of my second pregnancy and I was feeling very rebellious about maternity clothes,' Brown told the Washington Post. 'So I said to Annie [Leibovitz], 'Let's photograph Demi and show her pregnant instead of doing the usual tricks and disguising it.'

'And Annie always goes one better. I went berserk when I saw it. This was a defining cover — a new, unbelievably fabulous sort of feminist statement that liberated women to show the glories of fertility without the modesty of it.'

Brown, who has two children with husband, journalist Harold Evans later became the editor of The New Yorker and penned the bestselling The Diana Chronicles. She also launched the successful The Daily Beast and Tina Brown Live Media.

But she has a special place in her heart for Vanity Fair which she credits with raising her game 'tremendously' adding it had 'exceeded my dreams.'

Brown’s new memoir, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992 is out Tuesday and her interview with CBS Sunday Morning airs at 9am on WKMG-Channel 6.

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